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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Linfeng Huang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-44105 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Huang Linfeng L Jin Jingmin J Deighan Padraig P Kiner Evgeny E McReynolds Larry L Lieberman Judy J
Nature biotechnology 20130310 4
Synthetic small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are an indispensable tool to investigate gene function in eukaryotic cells and may be used for therapeutic purposes to knock down genes implicated in disease. Thus far, most synthetic siRNAs have been produced by chemical synthesis. Here we present a method to produce highly potent siRNAs in Escherichia coli. This method relies on ectopic expression of p19, an siRNA-binding protein found in a plant RNA virus. When expressed in E. coli, p19 stabilizes an ...[more]